Network States

Engineering

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

One thing I notice in the West especially is this tendency to severely underestimate how much change China has gone through in the past 30ish years. It’s unprecedented at a scale that I don’t portend to even attempt to understand as well, but I think it’s severely overlooked as many in the West

Americans are just not calibrated on how far Asia has advanced.

Why? I think it’s partly because there is no mass media depicting modern life in Asia besides perhaps Crazy Rich Asians. Also partly pride.

Inequality makes it easy to ignore development for those who want. Despite all the US TV and movie exports, Europeans have long been able to downplay US prosperity by assuming that it just applies to a few rich people while the masses have to work 3 jobs and don't have health care etc